Irwin-CCSD - Math Workshop

Math Workshop - Spring 2012

iPad Workshop: Math Activities with the iPad (Paul Irwin)
Date: 4/30/12 Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30pm
Where: Angel Oak Elementary
Description: Are you looking for ideas for incorporating the ipad into the math activities in your classroom? The ipad is a great tool to motivate students and get them engaged in math activities. This workshop will demonstrate math activities your students can do with ipads along with many apps you can use with your students. You will walk away from this workshop with activities you can incorporate in your classroom tomorrow!
Uses for math activities with ipads: Your students can use ipads for a variety of math activities including: multiplication, geometry, data and graphs, fractions, and much more!
Materials needed for workshop:

Teacher iPad2
Free Apps: Doodle Buddy
Paid Apps: Whiteboard, StripDesign, Notability, Splashmath, Strip Design
internet

Workshop Activities:

SplashMath – This app covers many of our math standards. The app is available for many elementary grade levels (2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.). Let's take a look!
- splashmathpresentation.pptx
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Uses include:
1. Varied math activies - by grade level
2. Monitor student progress
3. Email results to parents and teacher
StripDesign and iPad Camera – Use this app to allow students to document hands-on math activities and then create a project demonstrating the concept. Example: Transformations activity. Check out the tutorial!
stripdesignMATH.pptx
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or san the QR code below
Built-in manipulatives – No need to dig your manipulatives out of the cabinet. The ipad has hands-on activities built in: Tangrams, dice, fraction strips, counters, clocks, money, and base 10 blocks. (Apps: Tangrams, Dice, Virtual Manipulatives, SkipCounting, TellingTimeHD, BaseTenBlocks, JungleCoins, MakeChange)
Go to your apps store and find these above. Try each one!
Do you have other recommendations? Share!
PDF annotator for math activities – no paper needed! Post math activities in PDF format on a class wiki, students download using PDF annotator and complete. We will go to my wiki and open a PDF in Notability to complete

Don't forget:
Paid Resourcese: ( Example: GREAT MATH ACTIVITIES) - $39 per/year -http://abcteach.com/
- Password help?

Fraction practice $Converting fractions_to_percents.pdf$ Converting fractions_to_percents.pdf Details Download 819 KB
$adding_mixed_fractions.pdf$ adding_mixed_fractions.pdf Details Download 851 KB
placevaluenoanswer.pdf Details Download 7 KB

5. Multiplication – Use whiteboard for creating arrays (DoodleBuddy or Whiteboard)
Apps: Math Bingo,TimesTables, Flash to Pass Free, Rocket Math, HyperBlast, Splashmath

6. Fractions – Use whiteboard to create illustrations; Apps: Fractions by TaptoLearn, Fractions (JungleEducation),
Math Fractions, Pizza Fractions, Splashmath

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7. Geometry/Data and graphs – Apps: Whiteboard for tally charts/collecting data; Geometry4Kids, Geometry Pad, SplashMath; SymmetryShuffle; Using keynote to create graphs.